The Colors of Spring

We had a hot week. Unseasonably warm. Temps were up into the low 80’s. We have entered into spring – full blast. The peepers are back. The bullfrogs are bellowing, the males outdoing each other with their deep sounds, thumbing like the strings of a bass. Now it is hard to remember winter’s quiet.
I have been following the progress of the winter plants. I should learn their names. They light up the brooks, the colors now otherwise dull with the browns and grays of dead leaves exposed now that the snow has all melted.
These past couple of days the temperatures are more seasonably spring…next week heavy rains are forecast.